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Researching making the switch from Windows on my main PC and I have questions. (self.linux)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Jack_Burton to c/[email protected]

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This PC is basically my life, I use it for work (freelance business), entertainment, and to self host a server so I'm hesitant. I have a handful of questions for now while I look into it more:

I'd prefer not to dual boo, but it might be the safest way to start? If I dual boot, get used to Linux and (hopefully) get everything I need working, can I then go from dual boot to erasing the Windows partition and recombining so I then only have Linux installed and can keep the work and programs I already installed on Linux?
I do voiceover work, music production, and digital art/photography. Anyone else here do all this and what programs would you recommened to replace Audition, Photoshop, and Cubase?

--2.1. Regarding music production, has anyone successfully used vst files from Windows on Linux?

The drives for my server are NTFS. Does anyone have experience with this format on Linux (I use Emby)?
My bread and butter right now is voice acting so I NEED everything to play nice. I've read there might be some issues with drivers for my hardware, namely Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 and Behringer UV1. Anyone have any experience with this?

EDIT: Wow that's a lot of responses. I'd like to respond to each but I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the info haha. I think I'm gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out. Thanks to everyone, I've got a tonne to mull over now. Appreciate it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yup.
I use Audacity because it's super simple and has a familiar interface. Ardour is a DAW with way more features and mixing available, but a lot of people just use ONE as well for the "one and done" method. VSTs are going to be hit or miss depending on what they do and how they were written (many are windows-specific), but there are other things available for replacement if needed. Link.
NTFS is fine to read from on Linux, but I wouldn't suggest read/write because NTFS will 100% corrupt itself over time. Stick to either read-only from NTFS and save elsewhere, or copy them to a new destination and work from there.
There's a lot of info on these on Linux. Sounds like support for the Scarlett hit with kernel 6.8, so you'll be fine there. The Behringer EV1 should be standalone hardware, meaning it does it's work with the PC.

You can just run a LiveUSB of Fedora or whatever and try all this stuff out to be sure with no commitment. You could also get a second drive cheap and make this easier to test out fully if you really want and make the switch from dual booting a lot safer.

Either way, you have easy options to test all this out before even installing.

[–] Jack_Burton 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LiveUSB>

I had no idea this was a thing! So I can basically put a Linux distibution on a USB, boot into bios and run Linux without installing anything over my existing hdd? Researching a virtual machine has been on my radar, is that basically what this is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's not a virtual machine. It's an operating system running directly on your hardware from a drive. The drive just happens to be a USB stick.

I'll take this space to further the recommendation to get a cheap machine with which to experiment.

It's what I did for my business. I needed to keep a Windows laptop for client side interactions.

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